Interesting Drug

The Drawings of Leonardo DaVinci:

“The Drawings of Leonardo DaVinci
Visit.

[Thanks Chris!]

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What Does a Chinese Keyboard Look Like? - How they type in the PRC. By Daniel Engber:

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Domain Prices:

“DNJournal shows you reported domain sales of $10,000+ from last year. Interesting stuff, especially if you want to evaluate your own domain’s value, or ponder buying one. From the list:

Fish.com$1,020,000
Bills.com$964,500
Earth.com$800,000
King.com$155,000
Paraguay.com$150,000
Lunch.com$100,000
Lofts.com$100,000
EQ.com$100,000
Blogster.com$100,000

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Photos of unique basses and guitars:

“Blog: It’s been a while since we featured a musical instrument in this space, so Blogma was particularly heartened to stumble across…”

Enter Sandman:

“Sudarshan Patnaik, an Indian artist who notably recreated the Taj as an ‘ultimate sand castle’, is cocky about his next endeavor (via the BBC): (Patnaik) has built a huge sand sculpture of a rooster on a beach in Puri city, a resort in Orissa state, to create awareness of bird flu… It took him five hours and eight tons of sand to create the sand rooster. As Abhi already posted, the deadly H5N1 avian flu virus was discovered in Maharashtra a few days ago. I’m curious as to how well this sandy approach will actually work: ‘This sand sculpture …”

Mac Attack a Load of Crap:

“All the Mac viruses and security holes in the news are overblown. They’re news only because of their novelty, not the threat they pose. Commentary by Leander Kahney.”

What else would Mersault put in his blog?:

“Kruschen Salts and Camus’ Stranger: ‘A bit later, for want of anything better to do, I (Mersault) picked up an old newspaper that was lying on the floor and read it. There was an advertisement of Kruschen Salts and I cut it out and pasted it into an album where I keep things that amuse me in the papers.’

Dave Till has collected some other advertisements that Meursault might like.”

The Physics of Time Travel - Real or Fable?:

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Rock Stars Are Not DJs:

“‘Madonna is not a DJ. But this didn’t matter to the few hundred people who crowded into the West Village club Luke and Leroy for the popular weekly party MisShapes a few months ago to watch her ’spin.’ They came…”

Uru Makes A Comeback:

“Via a GameSetWatch post, the news on Adventure Gamers that Uru is back in a limited form. Uru, the online Myst game from Cyan Worlds, was taken offline not long after the service was first launched. From the article: ‘In an open letter to the community, Cyan co-founder Rand Miller revealed that they have received ‘limited funding from a third party that allows us to breathe some refreshing new life and optimism into all things Uru.’ The server, called the D’mala shard, is available for no charge to any owner of Uru, though to access it you’ll require an invitation from the community.’

Bundle of sticks:

“We all know the Nazis picked, and ruined, a perfectly good basic geometric symbol. But what about other symbols of fascism? Not as well known, not as demonized, but interting for students of symbolism.

Oldest, and among the most interesting and enduringly popular, is the fasces, a bundle of sticks wrapped around an axe, from which fascism gets its name.

It’s pretty rare to see swastikas in public nowadays — they’re so associated with the Nazis that they were universally stripped off American sports jerseys, soda pop promoting watch fobs, and first ladies. And yet, in the United States, fasces can still be found everywhere: medals of honor, the doors to the Nebraska Supreme Court, even behind the president as he speaks at the U.S. House of Representatives.“

Rocker Henry Rollins Possible Terror Threat…:

“US rocker and writer Henry Rollins was reported to the National Security hotline during his recent Australian tour because of a book he was reading on flight to Brisbane.

A furious Rollins was informed he was ‘nominated as a possible threat’ for reading Jihad: The Rise Of Militant Islam In Central Asia.

2005 Darwin Awards (Community and Lifestyle):

“The results are in.”

50 Most Awesomely Dead Rock Stars (Misc.):

“For many musicians, death is not final - it’s the best career move they ever made.”

Alzheimer’s ‘faster in educated’:

“Alzheimer’s disease progresses more rapidly in highly educated people, research suggests.”

Atomic Blast Photos:

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[Amusing] “Not safe for work” Fark photoshop by Farker Modified_Dangler shows up in Vancouver Province newspaper:

“(Theory of People)”

Search site retires iconic Jeeves:

“Iconic valet Jeeves is set to disappear from the Ask search site by the end of February.”

Top Ten Tattoos:

“What are the Top Ten most popular tattoos in America? The list changes from week to week, but www.vanishingtattoo.com updates this list regularly. The results are in: 10. Butterfly - For the past few years the butterfly has been by…”

Re-record iTunes protected AAC music to MP3:

“Having iTunes 6 and a Sansa M-250 MP3 player, I was really interested in how to get my protected AAC files into MP3 format for the Sansa. So I wrote an AppleScript that can take a playlist of protected AAC songs in iTunes and…”

Create a tartan, have it instantiated and shipped to your door:

“Cory Doctorow:

The Interactive Weaver Tartan Generator automatically generates tartan patterns based on your color selections. Choose your colors, their order and the number of threads per color and they’ll draw the tartan and then give you the option of having twill or silk fabric woven in your chosen pattern.

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(via Collision Detection)

Free for the downloadin’: “20 best mashups of ‘05″:

“Xeni Jardin:
BB reader Jane McG sez:

These 20 free tracks from San Francisco’s own original mash-up party (bootiesf) are unbelievably Bootie-licious.

My favorite is Gwen Stefani vs. Snoop Dogg vs. ZZ Top - ‘Hot Rich Girls Dropped In A Grange.’

Almost as amazing are ‘S.L.H. (Sri Lanka High)’ (M.I.A. vs. The Ramones) and ‘Do You Wanna Cuz It’s Tricky’ (Franz Ferdinand vs. Run-DMC vs. The Knack).

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